Such poetry aside, there was still a sense of doom permeating the industry, even if it wasn't directly linked to the devices that would eclipse more traditional reading vectors in the not-so-distant future.

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It would make a nice present for a friend in a distant country who knows little about Hong Kong and whose regular reading includes society magazines.

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Even though he had a distant memory of speaking and hearing, he had never learned the facility of reading words upon the tongue.

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Strikingly, when reading the report, the parallels between this debacle and other corporate disasters of the recent and more distant past are stunningly clear.

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